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>>> I've always felt that a synth, of whatever breed, is about sound mainly.
I actually don’t agree with this statement, even though on the surface it seems almost obvious.
A synthesizer is a musical instrument, and it’s human interface is extremely important. Why use a modular at all when you can buy a VST plug-in for less than the price of a single hardware VCO? Is it because the sound is THAT much better? I don’t think so. I prefer the hardware because there is an “experience” to using a modular synthesizer that is unlike anything else. Accept no substitutes!
I actually have two cabinets of Euro modules but I hardly ever turn them on – in fact, the only times I’ve powered them up at all in the past three years is to use the Metasonix tube VCO and jack it into an MOTM patch. Honestly. I really discovered that I get very frustrated with the Euro format; Frac-Rack too. I gave them a chance, I bought a couple of dozen modules because there were some unique offerings with features I really wanted to play with. But it’s an awful experience compared to using the MOTM format system.
These are just my opinions of course, thousands of Euro-users would disagree, but in any case, there’s a lot more to a modular than just the sound.
(That said, I really don’t think my Euro system sounds as good as my MOTM system.)